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Free Excel type software?

I volunteer in a small RSPCA charity shop. We have just started to do a bit of Ebay selling and I would like to set up a simple spreadsheet to record our success/failures.

We cannot run to buying Excel and wondered if there is a safe/free version which it would be OK to use for the charity shops purposes. Suppose it would be classed as business use?
Any advice much appreciated.
Thank you for this site :jNow OH and I are both retired, MSE is a Godsend
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  • Stompa
    Stompa Posts: 8,383 Forumite
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  • Beat me to it Stompa!
    Feb 2012 - onwards MF achieved
    September 2016 - Back into clearing a mortgage - Was due to be paid off in 32 years in March 2047 -
    April 2018 down to 28.00 months vs 30.04 months at normal payment.
    Predicted mortgage clearing 03/2047 - now looking at 02/2045

    Aims: 1) To pay off mortgage within 20 years - 2037
  • gonzo127
    gonzo127 Posts: 4,482 Forumite
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    the other one is libre office ;)

    http://www.libreoffice.org/
    Drop a brand challenge
    on a £100 shop you might on average get 70 items save
    10p per product = £7 a week ~ £28 a month
    20p per product = £14 a week ~ £56 a month
    30p per product = £21 a week ~ £84 a month (or in other words one weeks shoping at the new price)
  • Muppet81
    Muppet81 Posts: 951 Forumite
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    Probably a daft question but would any of these allow you to use a spreadsheet created in MS Office 2000?

    If not, could I safely download Open office to my home PC and have it loaded at the same time as MS Office 2000? That way I could create the spreadsheets at home and use them in the shop. Don't want anyhting to upset my own loaded software.
    Thank you for this site :jNow OH and I are both retired, MSE is a Godsend
  • Jake'sGran
    Jake'sGran Posts: 3,269 Forumite
    There is also Google documents but I don't know if it includes an Excel type one.

    I only had MS Office for 6 months on this Sony laptop but didn't want to buy it at the end of the period. I downloaded Open Office.
  • I think it's possible to save office 2000 format in a "correct" format that OpenOffice will open - I'll see if I can dig a link out for you...
    Feb 2012 - onwards MF achieved
    September 2016 - Back into clearing a mortgage - Was due to be paid off in 32 years in March 2047 -
    April 2018 down to 28.00 months vs 30.04 months at normal payment.
    Predicted mortgage clearing 03/2047 - now looking at 02/2045

    Aims: 1) To pay off mortgage within 20 years - 2037
  • Feb 2012 - onwards MF achieved
    September 2016 - Back into clearing a mortgage - Was due to be paid off in 32 years in March 2047 -
    April 2018 down to 28.00 months vs 30.04 months at normal payment.
    Predicted mortgage clearing 03/2047 - now looking at 02/2045

    Aims: 1) To pay off mortgage within 20 years - 2037
  • Stompa
    Stompa Posts: 8,383 Forumite
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    Muppet81 wrote: »
    Probably a daft question but would any of these allow you to use a spreadsheet created in MS Office 2000?
    OpenOffice should do yes:

    http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/File_formats
    Stompa
  • Stompa
    Stompa Posts: 8,383 Forumite
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    Oh, and should you not want to install it on your PC, OpenOffice can be run from a flash drive:

    http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
    Stompa
  • Muppet81
    Muppet81 Posts: 951 Forumite
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    Err! Computer illiterate. :o What is a flash drive?
    Thank you for this site :jNow OH and I are both retired, MSE is a Godsend
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